Tag: C4

We’ve pored over images and video of the Christmas bombing in Nashville, Tennessee. Here’s what we think was behind the blast.

Marines deep in Orange County canyon country hoisted heavy military-grade containers from trucks and pulled out shovels, axes, crowbars — equipment to dig holes for C4-grade explosives. The mission Tuesday was unusual, if not a first. The plan was to blow up three small dams on Silverado Creek. Boulders would fly, concrete would crumble, rock […]

Using a robot to clear a hazard, from a Combat Engineer perspective, makes perfect sense. Why endanger further innocent lives for the sake of a bad guy?

We were clumsy animals. It was junior high all over again, and I just drank a 40 oz of malt liquor and was now attempting to wildly grope for some boob. The road was as hazardous as my date – unknown, inexperienced, and random. Yet, the excitement was the moment – forward!